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From: Jan Zwiegers <jan@radicalsystems.co.za>
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Subject: Re: PCI BAR1 Unassigned
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On 2011-05-20 12:13 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jan Zwiegers<jan@radicalsystems.co.za>  wrote:
>> On 2011-05-19 08:50 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Jan Zwiegers<jan@radicalsystems.co.za>
>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have the problem below where my PCI card's second BAR does not get
>>>> assigned.
>>>> What can be the cause of this problem?
>>>> The last kernel I tested on which worked OK was 2.6.27.
>>>> My current problematic kernel 2.6.35.
>>>>
>>>> 05:01.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Eagle Technology PCI-703 Analog I/O Card
>>>> (rev 5c)
>>>>     Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
>>>>     Memory at 93b00000 (type 3, prefetchable) [size=2K]
>>>>     Memory at<unassigned>    (type 3, prefetchable)
>>>>     Capabilities: [80] #00 [0600]
>>>>     Kernel modules: pci703drv
>>>
>>> Could be resource exhaustion or, more likely, we ran out because we
>>> now assign resource to things that don't need them, leaving none for
>>> things that *do* need them.  This sounds like a regression, so we
>>> should open a bugzilla for it and attach dmesg logs from 2.6.27 and
>>> 2.6.35.
>>>
>>> Does this problem keep the driver from working?  (Sometimes drivers
>>> don't actually use all the BARs a device supports.)
>>
>> I'm the maintainer of the driver and was involved in the development of the
>> board as well in 2003. The board uses two BARS and the second BAR is the
>> most important. The board worked fine since the 2.4 days and only recently
>> became problematic. I suspect it works on even later kernels than 27, maybe
>> 2.6.32.
>>
>> My knowledge is too little to actually determine if the problem is because
>> the FPGA based PCI interface is not within spec or something that changed in
>> the kernel, because of the post .30 releases becoming more strict to PCI
>> specification, i.e. BIOS / Kernel interaction.
>
> Well, let's at least look at the working and broken dmesg logs.  My
> money is on kernel breakage.  If it used to work, it should still
> work.
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What do you need from me? I have at least 3 machines on which it used to 
work and is now running a later kernel. I can post dmesg from both .27 
and .35. Will do tomorrow when I'm back at the office.
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